Industrial engineering, operations research, and systems engineering are fields of study intended for individuals who are interested in analyzing and formulating abstract models of complex systems with the intention of improving system performance. Unlike traditional disciplines in engineering and the mathematical sciences, the fields address the role of the human decision-maker as key contributor to the inherent complexity of systems and primary benefactor of the analyses.

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The possibilities with an undergraduate degree from ISyE are many and varied. Our undergraduates move on to distinguished careers in dozens of fields. They can be found around the globe in leadership positions within academia, consulting, engineering, financial services, healthcare, law, manufacturing, retailing, transportation, humanitarian logistics, and more. The median starting salary with a B.S. in IE is $70,000.

A sampling of job titles that our graduates hold:

Analyst

Business

Financial

Healthcare

Logistics and Systems

Graduate School

Process Engineer

Quality Engineer

Systems Engineer

Warehouse Manager

Consultant

Environmental Protection

Financial

Healthcare

Information Technology

Software

Strategy

Supply Chain

Management

A fraction of the companies hiring our graduates:

Apple

AT&T

Bain & Company

Bank of America

Boston Consulting Group

Capital One

Caterpillar

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Central Intelligence Agency

Check Point Software Technologies

Chick-fil-A

Coca-Cola

Deloitte

Delta

Disney

ExxonMobil

Ford

General Mills

Google

The Home Depot

Kimberly-Clark

KPMG

Manhattan Associates

McKesson

McKinsey & Company

Microsoft

Power Plan

Procter & Gamble

RockTenn

Schlumberger

Schneider

Siemens

Toyota

UPS

Waffle House

Wal-Mart

Graduates with M.S. degrees from ISyE have begun careers with the following organizations:

Accenture

Apple

Baxter Healthcare

Boeing

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Cisco Systems

Coca-Cola

Delta Airlines

Equifax

ExxonMobil

Ford Motor Company

General Motors

Google

Habitat for Humanity

Hyatt Hotels Corporation

IBM

Intel

KivaSystems

Limited Brands

Manhattan Associates

McKinsey

Menlo Worldwide

Michelin

Nike

Norfolk Southern

PriceWaterhouseCoopers

​Proctor & Gamble

Siemens

Tesla Motors

UPS

Our students are highly sought after and tend to be split evenly between those seeking university positions and those pursuing employment in non-academic settings.

Graduates of our Ph.D. programs take academic positions at top engineering and business schools where they continue to build impactful research and teaching careers, and also sometimes choose to work in smaller departments, including those focused on computing and math, with a teaching-focused mission. You can find our Ph.D. graduates at virtually every industrial engineering or operations program in the U.S. and many others around the world.

Our students also choose to work at some of the best and most progressive companies that deploy industrial engineering, statistics, analytics, or operations research methodologies in their organization. Ph.D. graduates have also risen to lead those groups as well as to go on and lead the organizations. Typical non-academic positions include those at research labs, R&D groups in corporations, software development firms, and the like. Typical titles include: operations research analyst, consultant, staff mathematician, and statistician.

A sample of companies that have attracted our Ph.D. graduates include:

Amazon

BHP Billiton

UPS

McKinsey

Samsung

ExxonMobil

Logility

i2

Norfolk Southern

Battelle

SAS

Axioma

Descartes Associates

GE Global Research

JP Morgan Chase

Gurobi

BP Energy

Suntrust Bank

Delta Technologies

IBM

Siemens

Oracle

Intel

Capital One

NASA

United Airlines

BNSF

For those seeking academic positions, the School’s record has been strong. The following is a partial list of institutions where recent graduates have taken positions:

After graduating in 2014 with her BS IE degree, Breona Jenkins, received word that she got her dream job working at Disney in their industrial engineering department.

Since graduating in 2012 with an MS in Supply Chain Engineering, Lee Burrell, has "worked on global logistics projects for some of the world’s top companies in a multitude of industries from Singapore to San Francisco, China to the Czech Republic, and India to Indiana."

"I chose to pursue a doctoral degree through the Stewart School because it prepared me both to work in abstract mathematics and to solve problems that matter in the real world."